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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Ode to Donna

To some folks outside beautiful downtown Camp Connell, California, Donna Manning may just appear to be a normal human being, one who happens to run a store along Highway 4 on the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway.But for the people who live here (all 105 of us) and those who visit (several thousand in a big week), they know better.Judy Caverly, one of the more respectable residents of the area, and a real Yankee too, put her feelings about Donna into a semi-epic poem on her last birthday. It works best if you read it aloud in a Down-east accent. Pretend you are a Kennedy clan member.

Here 'tis:

ODE TO DONNA

I’m sitting here with pen in handDeciding how to honor Camp Connell’s lady proprietress, The enigma we call DONNA

The loving side we all have seen, pinch yourself, it’s not a dream.Gaze amongst the “artsy fartsy,” you might meet the “Paper Nazi.”If all you buy is black and white, you might be in for quite a fright!

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I live in California's Sierra Nevada south of Tahoe and north of Yosemite. After living above the snow line for five years we recently moved to the wine and Gold Rush town of Murphys. A ski resort is uphill, our sailboat 100 miles downhill.
I retired in 2004 to travel, read, write, learn more music, avoid haircuts and wearing ties, and write family history.
I was a journalist for over 40 years in five states.
I'm a native of Atlanta, and my children and grandchildren are nearby. I was raised in Mobile and miss gumbo.
I am a politically independent guitar-picking Christian anti-war Army veteran tree-hugger.